What We Need Is A Rebirth Of

To Say That There Is A Case For Heroes Is Not To Say That There Is A Case For Hero Worship. The Surrender Of Decision, The Unquestioning Submission To Leadership, The Prostration Of The Average Man Before The Great Man -- These Are The Diseases Of Heroism, And They Are Fatal To Human Dignity. History Amply Shows That It Is Possible To Have Heroes Without Turning Them Into Gods. And History Shows, Too, That When A Society, In Flight From Hero Worship, Decides To Do Without Great Men At All, It Gets Into Troubles Of Its Own.

Excellence Is The Eternal Quest. We Achieve It By Living Up To Our Highest Intellectual Standards And Our Finest Moral Intuitions. In Seeking Excellence, Take Life Seriously-but Never Yourself!

Television Has Spread The Habit Of Instant Reaction And Stimulated The Hope Of Instant Results.

Total Separation Of Church And State Was Considered The Best Safeguard For The Health Of Each. As [andrew] Jackson Explained, In Refusing To Name A Fast Day, He Feared To 'disturb The Security Which Religion Now Enjoys In This Country, In Its Complete Separation From The Political Concerns Of The General Government.'

The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's Occupational Disease.